We are really excited to present another great evening of music, featuring five outstanding bands from various locations and genres.

Here is the ToddP listing:

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Friday, June 19th @ MONSTER ISLAND BASEMENT

|| NYCTAPER PRESENTS

|| El Jezel
|||| Coyote Eyes
|||||| Thunder Power – from Omaha, 1st NYC show
|||||||| the Rest – from Ontario, 1st US show

| MONSTER ISLAND BASEMENT |
128 River St @ Metropolitan Ave | Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Bedford, G-Metropolitan, JM-Marcy | 8:30pm | all ages | $8

| EL JEZEL |
Queens-based intelligent post-gaze trio, El Jezel broke out at the StereoActive CMJ show last October.

| COYOTE EYES |
Deli Magazine’s band on the rise in February, this angular indie-pop trio draws comparisons from Deerhoof to early 80s Brit-goth.

| THUNDER POWER |
An Omaha-based indie-pop band that draws references as classic as early 10,000 Maniacs and Belle & Sebastian, their extensive Summer tour (Midwest and East Coast) brings them to Brooklyn for their first-ever NYC show.”

| THE REST |
This Ontario-based brilliant chamber-pop band has just released one of the early contenders for album of the year, Everyone All At Once. Chosen as NPR song/artist of the day last month. Their CD Release Tour will bring The Rest to the U.S. for the first time.

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The show begins at 8:30 pm (doors).
We have added a special guest to begin the night. The New Orleans band Hurray For The Riff Raff will begin promptly at 9:00pm (they have another show later that night). NYCTaper readers are familiar with Hurray For The Riff Raff from our wonderful experience with them last December at Pianos.

We will be posting often about this show over the next few weeks, including mp3s, live links and potentially some interviews.

Last year we were fortunate to capture Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 perform Steve’s old band The Dream Syndicate album The Days of Wine and Roses in its entirety. That show, performed in July at Maxwell’s, exceeded all of our expectations and breathed new life into that classic 1982 album.

This year Steve and the Miracle 3 will tackle the next album in the Dream Syndicate’s catalog, 1984’s The Medicine Show. This show takes place on June 27, 2009 at the Bell House in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn.

A little about Medicine Show:

“Despite charting on the Billboard list of top LPs and topping the CMJ singles chart for 2 months, the album is met with mixed reviews in the US where the band’s debut album “The Days of Wine and Roses” had been a critical sensation. Overseas it was a different story. “Medicine Show” received the highest accolades across Europe and the UK (the album made the London Guardian’s “Top 40 Albums of the First 40 Years of Rock” list in the mid-90s), sowing the seeds for a career that has been strong for bandleader Steve Wynn to the present day.”

“Medicine Show is the weirdest, most idiosyncratic, nastiest, funniest and most revealing record the Dream Syndicate ever made,” said Wynn in the liner notes from the record’s 1991 reissue. “It’s also my favorite.”

Last year’s performance of Days of Wine and Roses is still available on nyctaper [here].

[photo courtesy of Philip Pissas – more here]

Today Iron and Wine release the new 2-CD/3-LP collection of rare tracks entitled Around the Well. Last night at Abrons Arts Center, Sam Beam performed a primarily solo set for the final show of the tour in support of the new release. In a classic old intimate theatre, Sam’s homey charm and realistic songwriting thoroughly entranced the small crowd of diehards. As setlist was comprised of requests/votes taken from fans via the Iron and Wine website, there were several moments during the set when the performer was unsure of a lyric or chord change. Rather than allowing these interludes to devolve into awkwardenss, Sam used the intimacy of the setting to show his humor and humanity. While virtually the entire set consisted of highlights, we were especially moved by the cover of the Flaming Lips “Waiting for Superman” and Sam’s own “Upward Over the Mountain”. Along with the rarities and treats, also performed was a new song called “Mary Anne”.

Iron and Wine perform an In-Store at Other Music Tonight.

Download a Recording soon of this show at Played Last Night.

Download a vintage Iron and Wine show from 2003 at nyctaper [here]

Last Night’s Setlist:
Iron and Wine
2009-05-18
Abrons Arts Center
New York, NY USA

[Total Time 1:13]
01 [introduction]
02 History of Lovers
03 Woman King
04 Resurrection Fern
05 [banter – mangos]
06 Cinder And Smoke
07 God Made The Automobile
08 [banter – voting]
09 Waiting for Superman (Flaming Lips)
10 Upward Over The Mountain
11 [banter – Orson Welles]
12 Lion’s Mane
13 Gray Stables
14 Kingdom Of The Animals
15 Flightless Bird, American Mouth
16 In Your Own Time
17 Mary Anne [new song]
18 Fever Dream
19 A Boy With A Coin
20 The Trapeze Swinger
21 [encore break]
22 He Lays In The Reins

The new web broadcast station at Radio23.org will stream live tonight the No Fun Fest featuring sets by Sonic Youth and Bardo Pond at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Tune in to Radio23.org [here], at 1:00 am EST.

We had a show for a brief period on this excellent site (“NYCTaper Live”), but could not maintain the commitment of producing a two-hour show each week. However, when Radio23.org introduces a streaming live station in the Fall, we do anticipate an nyctaper feature.